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Power BI to Plotly: Build AI Dashboard Apps - with Adam Schroeder

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March 6th - 9:30 AM (Pacific Time)

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Youโ€™ve already invested in a Power BI semantic model. Cool. Now letโ€™s actually use it outside the walls of a closed BI environment. In this session, Adam Schroeder (Plotly) shows how Plotly Studio can connect directly to your existing Power BI semantic model so you can build polished, production-ready data apps, powered by Python and accelerated with AI, without rebuilding or migrating your data.

Youโ€™ll learn how to:

  • Build fully customized, production-ready data apps using Python (beyond drag-and-drop limits)

  • Distribute apps broadly without getting crushed by per-user viewer licensing costs

  • Own your branding, UX, and deployment strategy end-to-end

  • Take a practical step toward operationalizing trustworthy AI on top of governed data

If youโ€™re hitting the ceiling on Power BI customization, navigating licensing-based scaling challenges, or looking for more control over how insights (and AI) reach users, this is your playbook.

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Adam Schroeder is a Senior Developer Advocate at Plotly. He has helped grow the community through 1:1 relationships, contributing to 6 million Dash downloads per month. Heโ€™s taught Plotly Dash for over five years on YouTube as @CharmingData (over 60,000 views/month) and co-authored โ€œThe Book of Dash.โ€

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Posted on February 23, 2026 and filed under Livestreams, Visualizations, Reporting, Custom Visuals.

(Livestream Replay) Introducing EDITable - for Easy Master Data Entry into Power BI & Fabric - with Gopal

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EDITable by Lumel is a no-code Live Write-Back Application that will allow business users to create and maintain their Master Tables and Flat Tables primarily used for Reporting and Planning Applications with full governance, audit, and approval workflow.

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Gopal Krishnamurthy is the Founder/CEO of Lumel. Lumel is Looking Forward to Disrupting Data & Analytics space with No Code Integrated Platform that will eliminate application silos caused by the diverse needs of business users (Reporting, Visualizations, Story Telling, Analysis (Drill-Down, Pivot), Planning, Simulations, Collaboration and Write-back).

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(Livestream Replay) Better Maps in Power BI with ICON MAP - with James Dales

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Have you ever had requirements to do more with maps than you can achieve with the out of the box Power BI visuals? The Icon Map custom visual was created to fill these feature gaps, and enable more advanced capabilities, such as drawing images, lines and polygons on maps. James will walk us through demos showing the features and how to configure them.

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James Dales is the Global Capability Lead for Power BI at Avanade and is a Microsoft FastTrack Recognised Solution Architect. As a Microsoft Data Platform MVP he is the co-leader of the London Power BI user group. In 2019 he became the first member of the Power BI Contributors Program, working alongside the Microsoft engineering team to build new functionality into the product itself. He has a keen interest in spatial analytics and is the author of the Icon Map custom visual.

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Posted on May 16, 2023 and filed under Livestreams, Beginner, Visualizations, Custom Visuals.

(Livestream Replay) Create ANY Visual in Power BI with the HTML VizCreator - with Pascal Kiefer

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Every Power BI developer has come across business requirements which were impossible or difficult to achieve using the Power BI core visuals. The HTML VizCreator custom visual puts an end to this!

Learn from the creator of the visuals that even with little to no HTML knowledge, you can create all sorts of custom visualizations. The combination of DAX and HTML will give you a ton of new possibilities and can also help to improve report performance. With the HTML VizCreator visuals you can create custom KPI cards, highly complex tables, dynamic text boxes but also custom bar/column charts, any kind of infographics and many other elements.

One of the many 5-star-reviews on AppSource is titled โ€œThe Do-Everything Visual!โ€ which is exactly right, we can really use these visuals for nearly anything. In this hands-on session, we will show how to create different elements from scratch without the need to write any HTML code.

As a bonus, we will also show how to make phone calls directly from a Power BI report.

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Pascal Kiefer is the founder of BI Samurai, a company based in Switzerland that mainly implements Power BI solutions for clients from all industries across the globe. Having worked with hundreds of clients, the BI Samurai team became very well aware of the limitations of native Power BI and wanted to fill this gap. With the HTML VizCreator custom visuals, this has been achieved.

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